Everyday over the past 2 months i have seen a regular repeat (& growing intensity) of spammers, idiots registering on my forum posting sex... ads... I could only respond whenever they log in as guest at the pt of surf. I could only erase their accounts and include their IP addresses (as below)... Mostly Russian, US, Eastern Europe, North Korea IPS. Any idea on how to counter this?
Yep looks for a better captcha mod for sure as the one by default in my experience does nothing for the current bots. I just ended up switching to vbulletin because of it I was just not in the mood to be worrying about mods and such.
I found a great mod that already caought 3 spambots, it was on phpbb forums, adnd had something to do with anti-spambot registration mod or something like that, and it says do not add any profile info, or else you will be counted as spambot, so the normal people dont any any profile info but spambots do.
hey recently theres new mod created which IMO has the potentional to stop phpbb spam. What this mod does is that it adds a set of pictures on the registraton page and asks the HUMANs to check only on those pics which are animals or not animals! the mod is here http://www.phpbbhacks.com/download/7937 demo is also available im gona install this one as im also suffering from sex sites spam daily.